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Zzz, pronounced "zees" like bees, is a local-first forge for power users and developers. The idea is to make an integrated cross-platform environment that adapts to your needs and intent while remaining fully open, aligned, and designed for your autonomy. It's both a customizable web UI and local-first backend for power users, and a flexible tool for crafting UX-maximizing websites with a streamlined developer experience, eventually accessible to non-coders (hence all the AI).
More at zzz.software/about.
This is an early stage project and the ideas are still developing - see the issues and discussions.
This project is in its early stages, and installing it currently requires some basic technical skills. Eventually there will be a desktop app but for now you'll need Node 22.15+ (YMMV with Deno/Bun/etc, although Deno will be used for deployment soon) and Git to clone the repo.
Running Zzz locally in development with Node is the supported way to use it right now. It deploys via SvelteKit's static adapter with diminished capabilities (zzz.software), and it will have a production build with the Node adapter and Hono server soon.
Developing on Windows requires something like WSL.
To run Zzz, we need an .env.development file in your project root.
In your terminal, copy over src/lib/server/.env.development.example:
cp src/lib/server/.env.development.example .env.development --update=noneYou can edit .env.development with your API keys,
or update them at runtime on the /capabilities page.
Then:
npm run devBrowse to the location is says, probably localhost:5173.
- #7 integrate database
- #8 undo/history system
- publish to npm
- input welcome
Zzz builds on a great deal of software.
- see the deps in package.json
- I started using Claude in late 2024 after making the initial prototype,
and in late 2025 I started doing much of the coding with Claude Code, Opus 4.5
being the first over some threshold for me for this project
- see
⚠️ AI generatedand similar disclaimers
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